Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-01-19 — 1849-10-07) was an American author best known for his poetry and short stories which usually have dark macabre themes which have greatly influenced Gothic literature and romanticism.

I first learned about Poe from his poem, The Raven, when I was a boy, but I didn't start reading any of his other work until my mid thirties. In general, I find his writing to be certainly mood-inducing, but it always feels like he's trying too hard to be scary. I like to read his work around Halloween time to help put me in the mood.

Works I've Read

• Alone
• The Black Cat
• The City In the Sea
• The Fall of the House of Usher
• The Haunted Place
• The Masque of the Red Death
• The Pit and the Pendulum
• The Raven
• The Tell-Tale Heart
• To —— —— (1829)

Links

• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe - Wikipedia.